Hister
★ 6.0kGNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Source — No PaywallSingle Container — single container — minimal hosting footprintBinary · SourceNo external DB23+ active committers (12mo)
About
Hister is a private search engine designed for people who want to index and search the pages they visit and the files they keep. It stores full-content indexes so users can retrieve information later...
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Features
- Full text indexing
- Automatic browser indexing
- Powerful queries
- Optional semantic search
- Crawler and browser import
- Web interface
- Terminal/TUI access
- MCP client support
- Multi user support
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 13, 2026
- Created
- Jan 4, 2026
- Install Methods
- binarysource
- Requirements
- Go 1.26npma C compiler for CGO dependencies
- Runtime / Stack
- GoDocker
- Privacy & Independence
- No TelemetryNo Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓Single Container — minimal hosting footprintsingle container
Run Hister with Docker Compose
Compose file from the Hister project repository.
1 service
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (1 volume)
compose.yml · @ 488c207 · scanned Sep 23, 2026
services:
hister:
image: ${HISTER_IMAGE:-ghcr.io/asciimoo/hister:latest}
# Prefer the published image for `compose up`; `compose build` still uses
# the source below and can reuse layers from the published image.
pull_policy: missing
build:
context: .
target: release
cache_from:
- ${HISTER_IMAGE:-ghcr.io/asciimoo/hister:latest}
- type=registry,ref=${HISTER_CACHE_IMAGE:-ghcr.io/asciimoo/hister:buildcache}
container_name: hister
init: true
restart: unless-stopped
read_only: true
security_opt:
- no-new-privileges:true
cap_drop:
- ALL
ports:
- '4433:4433'
volumes:
- hister_data:/hister/data
tmpfs:
- /tmp:noexec,nosuid,size=64m
environment:
HISTER__SERVER__ADDRESS: 0.0.0.0:4433
HISTER__SERVER__BASE_URL: http://localhost:4433
volumes:
hister_data:
This file may be out of date. Check the Hister documentation for current setup steps.
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